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most citedDirect imaging of a zero-field target skyrmion and its polarity switch in a chiral magnetic nanodisk

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 21 cited

Finite-temperature properties of antiferroelectric perovskite from deep learning interatomic potential

Huazhang Zhang, Hao-Cheng Thong, Louis Bastogne +3

The prototypical antiferroelectric perovskite (PZO) has garnered considerable attentions in recent years due to its significance in technological applications and fun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Photocarrier Transport of Ferroelectric Photovoltaic Thin Films Detected by the Magnetic Dynamics of Adjacent Ferromagnetic Layers

Yujun Zhang, Ji Ma, Keisuke Ikeda +7

We have observed photocarrier transport behaviors in BiFeO/LaSrMnO~(BFO/LSMO) heterostructures by using time-resolved synchrotron x-ray magnetic circular dichro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Evidencing non-Bloch dynamics in temporal topolectrical circuits

Maopeng Wu, Qian Zhao, Lei Kang +7

One of the core concepts from the non-Hermitian skin effect is the extended complex wavevectors (CW) in the generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ), while the origin of CW remains elusive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 12 cited

A puzzling insensitivity of magnon spin diffusion to the presence of 180 domain walls in a ferrimagnetic insulator

Ruofan Li, Lauren J. Riddiford, Yahong Chai +12

We present room-temperature measurements of magnon spin diffusion in epitaxial ferrimagnetic insulator MgAlFeO (MAFO) thin films near zero applied magnetic fi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Dynamic scaling properties of multistep polarization response in ferroelectrics

Yuri A. Genenko, Sergey Zhukov, Maohua Zhang +2

Ferroelectrics are multifunctional smart materials finding applications in sensor technology, micromechanical actuation, digital information storage etc. Their most fundamental pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 32 cited

Machine-learning interatomic potential for molecular dynamics simulation of ferroelectric KNbO3 perovskite

Hao-Cheng Thong, XiaoYang Wang, Han Wang +3

Ferroelectric perovskites have been ubiquitously applied in piezoelectric devices for decades, among which, eco-friendly lead-free (K,Na)NbO3-based materials have been recently dem…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 9 cited

Multi-step stochastic mechanism of polarization reversal in orthorhombic ferroelectrics

Yuri A. Genenko, Maohua Zhang, Ivan S. Vorotiahin +5

A stochastic model of electric field-driven polarization reversal in orthorhombic ferroelectrics is advanced, providing a description of their temporal electromechanical response.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1 cited

Anisotropic Magnon Spin Transport in Ultra-thin Spinel Ferrite Thin Films -- Evidence for Anisotropy in Exchange Stiffness

Ruofan Li, Peng Li, Di Yi +5

We report measurements of magnon spin transport in a spinel ferrite, magnesium aluminum ferrite (MAFO), which has a substantial in-plane four-fold…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 138 cited

Ultrasensitive Field-Effect Biosensors Enabled by the Unique Electronic Properties of Graphene

Xiaoyan Zhang, Qiushi Jing, Shen Ao +4

This review provides a critical overview of current developments on nanoelectronic biochemical sensors based on graphene. Composed of a single layer of conjugated carbon atoms, gra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 2 cited

High-Entropy Oxides Based on Valence Combinations: Design and Practice

Lei Tang, Zemin Li, Kepi Chen +3

High-entropy oxides (HEOs) are a new class of materials that are promising for a wide range of applications. Designing HEOs needs to consider both geometric compatibility and elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 105 cited

Ultra-uniform Nanocrystalline Materials via Two-Step Sintering

Yanhao Dong, Hongbing Yang, Lin Zhang +6

Nanocrystalline metals and ceramics with <100 nm grain sizes and superior properties (e.g., mechanical strength, hardness, fracture toughness and stored dielectric energy) are of g…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 36 cited

Mechanisms of skyrmion and skyrmion crystal formation from the conical phase

Taehoon Kim, Haijun Zhao, Ben Xu +6

Real-space topological magnetic structures such as skyrmions and merons are promising candidates for information storage and transport. However, the microscopic mechanisms that con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 16 cited

Ultimate Photo-Thermo-Acoustic Efficiency of Graphene Aerogels

Francesco De Nicola, Lorenzo Donato Tenuzzo, Ilenia Viola +4

The ability to generate, amplify, mix, and modulate sound with no harmonic distortion in a passive opto-acoustic device would revolutionize the field of acoustics. The photo-thermo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 64 cited

Crossover from 2D metal to 3D Dirac semimetal in metallic PtTe2 films with local Rashba effect

Ke Deng, Mingzhe Yan, Chu-Ping Yu +10

PtTe2 and PtSe2 with trigonal structure have attracted extensive research interests since the discovery of type-II Dirac fermions in the bulk crystals. The evolution of the electro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 20 cited

Templated direct growth of ultra-thin double-walled carbon nanotubes

Lei Shi, Jinquan Wei, Kazuhiro Yanagi +5

Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) combined the advantages of multi-walled (MW-) and single-walled (SW-) CNTs can be obtained by transforming the precursors (e.g. fullerene, f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 61 cited

Oxygen-Octahedral-Tilting-Driven Topological Hall Effect in Ultrathin SrRuO3 Films

Youdi Gu, Yi-Wen Wei, Kun Xu +13

Topological spin textures as an emerging class of topological matter offer a medium for information storage and processing. The recently discovered topological Hall effect (THE) is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Towards the growth of single-crystal boron nitride monolayer on Cu

Li Wang, Xiaozhi Xu, Leining Zhang +21

Atom-layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), with excellent stability, flat surface and large bandgap, has been reported to be the best 2D insulator to open up the great possibiliti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 43 cited

Flexoelectricity in antiferroelectric ceramics

P. Vales-Castro, Krystian Roleder, Lei Zhao +3

Flexoelectricity (coupling between polarization and strain gradients) is a property of all dielectric materials that has been theoretically known for decades, but it is only relati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 38 cited

Optical control of magnetism in NiFe/VO2 heterostructures

Guodong Wei, Xiaoyang Lin, Zhizhong Si +9

Optical methods for magnetism manipulation have been considered as a promising strategy for ultralow-power and ultrahigh-speed spin switches, which becomes a hot spot in the field…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

First-principles study of the layered thermoelectric material TiNBr

Shuofeng Zhang, Ben Xu, Yuanhua Lin +2

Layer-structured materials are often considered to be good candidates for thermoelectric materials, because they tend to exhibit intrinsically low thermal conductivity as a result…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 8 cited

Fano Resonance in a Subwavelength Mie-based Metamolecule with Split Ring Resonator

Xiaobo Wang, Ji Zhou

In this letter, we report a method of symmetry-breaking in an artificial Mie-based metamolecule. A Fano resonance with a Q factor of 96 is observed at microwave frequencies in a st…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 90 cited

Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram of Vanadium Dioxide

Yabin Chen, Shuai Zhang, Feng Ke +8

The complexity of strongly correlated electron physics in vanadium dioxide is exemplified as its rich phase diagrams of all kinds, which in turn shed light on the mechanisms behind…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 35 cited

Decouple Electronic and Phononic Transport in Nanotwinned Structure: A New Strategy for Enhancing the Figure-of-merit of Thermoelectrics

Yanguang Zhou, Xiaojing Gong, Ben Xu +1

Thermoelectrics (TE) materials manifest themselves in direct conversion of temperature differences to electric power and vice versa. Despite remarkable advances have been achieved…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 51 cited

Insight into dielectric response of ferroelectric relaxors by statistical modeling

J. Liu, F. Li, Y. Zeng +4

Ferroelectric relaxors are complex materials with distinct properties. The understanding of their dielectric susceptibility, which strongly depends on both temperature and probing…